<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am trying to read some netCDF data (from the CRU climate database) into grass. I am looking at the netcdf wiki page and having a little trouble translating the instructions there to the output I am getting from "gdalinfo". Here is the <div><br></div><div>If I am trying to use syntax that looks something like:</div><div><pre style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; padding: 1em; border: 1px dashed rgb(47, 111, 171); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 13px; position: static; z-index: auto; ">r.in.gdal input=NETCDF:"sst.nc":time_bnds output=sst</pre><div>I am getting the following error:</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>ERROR 4: `NETCDF:~/Downloads/cru_ts_3_10.1901.2009.pet.dat.nc:time_bnds' does not exist in the file system,</div><div>and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.</div></div><div><br></div><div>In my case, the PATH_TO_FILE is</div><div><br></div><div>"~/Downloads/cru_ts_3_10.1901.2009.pet.dat.nc"</div><div><br></div><div>However, I can't tell what to use in the place of ":time_bnds". Any ideas from the pasted text below of what my input argument should look like?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Kirk</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is output I am looking at from gdalinfo:</div><div><br></div><div><div>GRASS 6.4.1 (globe_30min):~ > gdalinfo ~/Downloads/cru_ts_3_10.1901.2009.pet.dat.nc </div><div>ERROR 1: GDAL/GRASS57 driver was compiled against GDAL 1.8 but current library version is 1.9</div><div><br></div><div>ERROR 1: GDAL/GRASS57 driver was compiled against GDAL 1.8 but current library version is 1.9</div><div><br></div><div>Driver: netCDF/Network Common Data Format</div><div>Files: /Network/Servers/<a href="http://truffula.fr.umn.edu/Volumes/disk1/home1/kirkw/Downloads/cru_ts_3_10.1901.2009.pet.dat.nc">truffula.fr.umn.edu/Volumes/disk1/home1/kirkw/Downloads/cru_ts_3_10.1901.2009.pet.dat.nc</a></div><div>Size is 720, 360</div><div>Coordinate System is `'</div><div>Origin = (-180.000000000000000,90.000000000000000)</div><div>Pixel Size = (0.500000000000000,-0.500000000000000)</div><div>Metadata:</div><div> lat#long_name=latitude</div><div> lat#units=degrees_north</div><div> lon#long_name=longitude</div><div> lon#units=degrees_east</div><div> NC_GLOBAL#comment=Data restrictions: for academic research use only.Contact BADC for details</div><div> NC_GLOBAL#contact=BADC <<a href="mailto:badc@rl.ac.uk">badc@rl.ac.uk</a>></div><div> NC_GLOBAL#Conventions=CF-1.4</div><div> NC_GLOBAL#history=Wed Feb 2 03:32:36 GMT 2011 : User badc : Program makegridsauto.for called by update.for</div><div> NC_GLOBAL#institution=Data held at British Atmospheric Data Centre, RAL, UK.</div><div> NC_GLOBAL#references=Information on the data is available at <a href="http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/cru/">http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/cru/</a></div><div> NC_GLOBAL#source=Run ID = 1102011219</div><div>Data generated by BADC from:</div><div>tmp.1009221824.dtb</div><div>dtr.1009221824.dtb</div><div>vap.1009221824.dtb</div><div>cld.1009221824.dtb</div><div> NC_GLOBAL#title=CRU TS 3.10 Potential Evapotranspiration</div><div> pet#_FillValue=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> pet#correlation_decay_distance=-999</div><div> pet#long_name=potential evapotranspiration</div><div> pet#missing_value=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> pet#units=mm</div><div> time#calendar=gregorian</div><div> time#long_name=time</div><div> time#units=days since 1900-1-1</div><div>Corner Coordinates:</div><div>Upper Left (-180.0000000, 90.0000000) </div><div>Lower Left (-180.0000000, -90.0000000) </div><div>Upper Right ( 180.0000000, 90.0000000) </div><div>Lower Right ( 180.0000000, -90.0000000) </div><div>Center ( 0.0000000, 0.0000000) </div><div>Band 1 Block=720x1 Type=Float64, ColorInterp=Undefined</div><div> NoData Value=9.96920996838686905e+36</div><div> Metadata:</div><div> _FillValue=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> correlation_decay_distance=-999</div><div> long_name=potential evapotranspiration</div><div> missing_value=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> NETCDF_DIMENSION_time=380</div><div> NETCDF_time_units=days since 1900-1-1</div><div> NETCDF_VARNAME=pet</div><div> units=mm</div><div>Band 2 Block=720x1 Type=Float64, ColorInterp=Undefined</div><div> NoData Value=9.96920996838686905e+36</div><div> Metadata:</div><div> _FillValue=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> correlation_decay_distance=-999</div><div> long_name=potential evapotranspiration</div><div> missing_value=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> NETCDF_DIMENSION_time=410</div><div> NETCDF_time_units=days since 1900-1-1</div><div> NETCDF_VARNAME=pet</div><div> units=mm</div></div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div><div>Band 1308 Block=720x1 Type=Float64, ColorInterp=Undefined</div><div> NoData Value=9.96920996838686905e+36</div><div> Metadata:</div><div> _FillValue=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> correlation_decay_distance=-999</div><div> long_name=potential evapotranspiration</div><div> missing_value=9.969209968386869e+36</div><div> NETCDF_DIMENSION_time=40161</div><div> NETCDF_time_units=days since 1900-1-1</div><div> NETCDF_VARNAME=pet</div><div> units=mm</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>